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Dental & Oral Health RESEARCH REVIEW™ Making Education Easy Issue 5 – 2016 to the fifth issue of Dental and Oral Health Research Review. In this issue: Welcome This issue begins with a review of the latest advances in saliva-related studies in which the potential value of Saliva in the diagnosis of saliva for early diagnosis of oral and systemic diseases is discussed. A meta-analysis of analgesics for pain of disease endodontic origin concludes that NSAIDs are the agents of choice (in the absence of contraindications). Colleagues from Australia have reviewed and provided guidelines for reducing the risks associated with radiation exposure in dental practices. The final issue for 2016 concludes with a report on the use of TCMs (traditional Chinese Treatment failure in medicines) by US-residing Chinese parents and their children for oral conditions. endodontics We hope you have enjoyed Dental and Oral Health Research Review this year, and we look forward to returning in 2017. Treating permanent teeth Kind regards with deep dentine caries Dr Colleen Murray Associate Professor Jonathan Leichter NSAIDs: first-line in [email protected] [email protected] endodontic pain relief? Management of dens Saliva in the diagnosis of diseases invaginatus Authors: Zhang C-Z et al. Summary: Saliva is a hypotonic solution of salivary acini, gingival crevicular fluid and oral mucosal exudates Oral care for pregnant with multiple functions: mouth cleaning, by washing away bacteria and food debris; digestion, as salivary patients amylase catalyses the hydrolysis of starch into maltose and sometimes glucose in the mouth; antibacterial effects provided by salivary lysozymes and thiocyanate ions; and saliva secretion contains risk factors for some diseases by excreting or transmitting potassium iodide, lead and mercury, and viruses such as rabies, polio and Hypophosphatasia in HIV infection. This review summarises the latest research into saliva-related studies and discusses the potential dentistry value of saliva in the early diagnosis of oral diseases, such as dental caries and periodontal disease, as well as cancer, diabetes and other systemic disorders. An update of radiation shielding in dental settings Comment (CM): Using saliva as a diagnostic fluid has many advantages – it is simple and non-invasive to collect, convenient to store, and contains high-quality DNA. This paper discusses the concept of salivaomics, which encompasses genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabonomics and microRNA analysis, for the Lollipop-induced oral early diagnoses of some oral and systemic diseases. The structures and functions of salivary bacteria have lichenoid reaction in a child been studied as potential predictive markers for caries onset. With regards to periodontal disease, an easy to use and time-efficient P. gingivalis saliva kit has been developed. Tumour-specific DNA was positive in saliva TCM use for oral conditions in 100% of patients with oral tumours. Salivary proteins have also found to be useful for pancreatic, breast, prostate and lung cancer detection. Systemic diseases that can be diagnosed from salivary biomarkers include diabetes mellitus, acute myocardial infarction, viral infections (such as hepatitis A, B and C, HIV-1, measles, mumps, rubella, dengue and human cytomegalovirus), chronic liver disease and chronic Abbreviations used in this issue renal failure. While research on saliva and the diagnosis of disease is still in its early stage, perhaps we can HIV = human immunodeficiency virus think more positively of this bodily fluid next time we are battling with a dental procedure while elbow-deep NSAID = nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in saliva. RCT = randomised controlled trial TCM = traditional Chinese medicine Reference: Int J Oral Sci 2016;8(3):133–7 Abstract SUBSCRIBE FREE! Helping UAE health professionals keep up to date with clinical research www.researchreview.ae www.researchreview.ae a RESEARCH REVIEW™ publication 1 Dental & Oral Health RESEARCH REVIEW™ Assessment of treatment Long-term survival and vitality outcomes of permanent teeth failure in endodontic therapy following deep caries treatment with step-wise and partial- Author: Bergenholtz G caries-removal Summary: This paper considers the place of Authors: Hoefler V et al. clinical research in the field of endodontic therapy, Summary: This systematic review included nine publications utilising data from five clinical studies (two RCTs and focuses on the assessment of cases with and three observational case-series) reporting long-term survival data (2–10 years) for 426 permanent teeth persistent lesions subsequent to endodontic with deep dentine caries treated with partial caries removal (n=167) or stepwise caries removal techniques treatment. Scant data and guidelines exist for (n=259). Failures were defined as loss of pulp vitality or restorative failures following treatment. At 2 and 3 years, assessing the failure of endodontic therapy. The successful rates exceeded 88% with both techniques. In observational data, pulp vitality was maintained in 96% paper explains that persistent apical periodontitis of teeth at 2 years with both techniques, while one RCT reported significantly higher vitality at 3 years for partial is not often regarded as a condition that requires caries removal compared with stepwise caries removal techniques (96% vs. 83%; p<0.05). Risk of bias was high treatment in clinical practice. The authors call for in all studies, due to limited quality of the evidence and methodology. comprehensive research into the effect of apical periodontitis on general health and to confirm the Comment (CM): Both stepwise and partial caries removal techniques are reported to result in fewer extent to which persisting lesions in root-filled teeth pulpal exposures than traditional one-step total caries removal. Stepwise caries removal initially removes result in adverse systemic health effects. all superficial and most of the central caries, leaving a thin layer of infected dentine to protect the pulp, placement of a provisional restoration, followed by re-entry after a prespecified time. Residual caries is then Comment (CM): Recent technological removed and a permanent restoration placed. In partial caries removal, also known as incomplete caries advancements have made root canal therapy removal or indirect pulp capping, peripheral caries is removed, the thin layer of carious dentine covering the a feasible and attractive discipline that allows pulp is retained, covered with a liner, and a definitive restoration placed. This systematic review investigated dentists to properly manage most teeth with two outcomes, namely restorative failures and loss of pulp vitality. Five studies met the inclusion criteria. endodontic complications. While endodontic Although it was found that success was greater than 88% at 2 and 3 years using either stepwise or partial success has been defined, treatment failure caries removal, the authors concluded that larger, long-term clinical studies following diverse populations has not. Is an asymptomatic tooth with apical of participants are needed. periodontitis a failure? Does a small radiographic lesion that does not change in size indicate Reference: J Dent 2016;54:25–32 success? Cone-beam computed tomography is Abstract better able to identify periapical inflammatory lesions than intraoral radiographs, showing not just small but even large lesions that had Evidence-based recommendations for analgesic efficacy to failed to be visible by intraoral radiography. treat pain of endodontic origin While this is of interest, it does not help us in clinical practice. No universal guidelines Authors: Aminoshariae A et al. exist to support clinical decision-making as to Summary: These researchers systematically reviewed English-language articles focusing on pain of which cases need retreatment and which can endodontic origin and analgesics used to decrease that pain. All papers were published between January 1990 be monitored. Clinicians and scientists have and April 2016. The aim of this investigation was to provide the best available scientific evidence for dental different perspectives with a persistent apical clinicians wanting to recommend or prescribe analgesics for endodontic pain. periodontitis being a proper and well-defined parameter in scientific investigations, but not Comment (CM): While analgesic efficacy in dentistry has historically been investigated using extraction always being regarded as needing retreatment of impacted third molars as a viable pain model, these patients differ from those in need of endodontic in clinical practice. The authors suggest that treatment who are generally older with possibly more complicated medical histories and can have long-term prospective studies on the effect of preoperative pulpal or periradicular infections. This systematic review analysed 27 randomised, placebo- periapical periodontitis on general health are controlled trials and focussed on orally administered analgesics in two primary clinical situations. The needed. In the meantime, we will have to live twelve studies reporting on preoperative analgesics showed that preoperative steroids significantly reduce with insufficient scientific knowledge and base post procedural pain and that the combination of flurbiprofen and tramadol was better than either drug our decisions on our personal interpretations. alone. Mixed reports were found regarding preoperative NSAIDs alone. Fifteen studies were included